Student Body and Friends of LCI
In 2011 the student body consisted of approx 120 full-time enrollees. 21% of the student body matriculated from out of state, 46% from the state of Louisiana but not from the Baton Rouge area, and 33% from the Baton Rouge Area.
Students participate in an iron-chef style competition called the "Home Plate Classic" & "The Race to Cannes" once a year. This competition is judged by local celebrities and members of the Louisiana Food Service industry. The winner of the Race to Cannes goes to the Cannes Film Festival in France. Once in France they will work with The American Pavilion, for more info go to ampav.com. LCI supports the local Farmer's Market, Farm to Table Movement, Sustainability, Slow Food, and does regular cooking demonstrations throughout the community. LCI also provides students several extracurricular activities, including The Garden Club and Student Council.
Graduation ceremonies are held twice a year (Summer and Winter). Notable past speakers include television celebrity Chef Paul Prudhomme (2005), famous New Orleans' chef Susan Spicer (2004), Steve Woodruff of Commander's Palace (2005), Dudley Passman of Zatarain's (2006), Louisiana Restaurant Association President Jim Funk (2007), Matt Saurage (Community Coffee) 2008, Chef Tory McPhail (2009) Commander's Palace Hans Limburg Taste Bud's Mgmt (2009), Chef Hosea Rosenberg winner of Bravo's Top Chef season 5 (2009), Chef Alon Shaya of Domenica (2010), Chef Chuck Subra of La Cote Brasserie (2011)
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“To be born in a new country one has to die in the motherland.”
—Irina Mogilevskaya, Russian student. “Immigrating to the U.S.,” student paper in an English as a Second Language class, Hunter College, 1995.
“The body can feed the body only.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I still think I ought to leave Washington well alone. I have many friends in that city who can of their own motion speak confidently of my ways of thinking and acting. An authorized representative could remove some troubles that you now see, but only think of yet greater troubles he might create.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)